This event is not sponsored by the Alumni Association and does not fall under the benefits of Founding Membership status.

(Required training for Richmont Trauma Team deployment)

When: June 1-2, 2018 / 8:30am – 5:00pm

Where: Richmont Graduate University- Atlanta Campus, 1900 The Exchange SE, Bldg. 100

Continuing Education: 12 NBCC-approved CE Clock Hours Awarded. 12 CE Hours Awarded to Psychologists. Partial attendance is not awarded.

Target Audience:  This is an intermediate level training for professionals, students, and laypersons working with traumatized populations, including disaster survivors.

Fees:

• Students= $160.00
• Professionals= $240.00

Presenter: Dr. Vanessa Snyder

Dr. Vanessa Snyder is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Traumatologist, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She is a 2008 graduate as well as the VP of the Institute of Trauma and Recovery and the Dean of Clinical Affairs at Richmont Graduate University. She received her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Regent University in VA. Her areas of research interests include: trauma in families, sexual abuse and trauma, trauma treatment with play/art therapy, assessment in treatment of adults who experience trauma/complex trauma, secondary traumatic stress, complex trauma model protocol used for human trafficking and dissociative disorders.

Topic: This GCAT course discusses diagnosis and DSM changes to child and adolescent trauma disorders. Attention is focused at treatment issues, treatment modalities, and the effects of crisis and disaster trauma versus long term chronic trauma. Specific intervention modalities are taught for skills development.

Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the effective screening, intake, assessment, and treatment skills with traumatized children, families, and groups that vary by the characteristics of the clients.
• Recognize family systems relative to traumatic stress and be able to provide systemic interventions with the entire traumatized family;
• Demonstrate skill in applying critical incident debriefing/interventions with a focus upon children, families, and groups.
• Recognize the variations in response to traumatic stress among various cultural, racial, gender, and age groups and communities and how the various treatment approaches can or can not be applied to these groups of children, families, and groups;
• Demonstrate skill in recognizing effective efforts at trauma stabilization and resolution that change to meet the unique requirements of communities;
• Recognize the theory, purpose, and characteristics of the Green Cross-approved treatments connected to various contexts;
• Recognize the characteristics of competent case management with traumatized populations including recording, report-writing, ancillary services and referral as it varies by context;
• Recognize the fundamental principles of context-flexible treatments, assessments, and techniques that work across contexts;
• Recognize and able to note the Green Cross Academy of Traumatology Standards of Practice that includes the ethical standards for traumatology and the respect for differences.

Registration: Click HERE!

For questions about the course, please contact Dr. Vanessa Snyder at vsnyder@richmont.edu

For questions concerning registration or Continuing Education, please contact Martha Busby at mbusby@richmont.edu

Refunds: For a full refund, requests must be made prior to May 28.

Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Richmont Graduate University is approved by the American Psychologist Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Richmont Graduate University maintains responsibility for this program and its content.